Career
He sometimes performed on bass guitar and harmonica. He released a few albums under his own name. In his later years, he toured as Tommy Bankhead and the Blues Eldoradoes.
Bankhead was born in Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, and lived in Saint Louis, Missouri, for most of his life.
He was a fixture in Saint Louis blues for over fifty years. He died in Saint Louis in December 2000, from respiratory failure due to emphysema.